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Green Heating and Cooling Technology Turns Carbon from Eco-Villain to Hero
Carbon is usually typecast as a villain in terms of the environment but researchers at the University of Warwick have devised a novel way to miniaturise a technology that will make carbon a key material in some extremely green heating products for our homes and in air conditioning equipment for our cars.
Most domestic heating and [...]
From Smokestacks to Your Tank
Image by Broken Haiku via Flickr
IF the government regulates carbon dioxide emissions, power plants and other factories will probably start removing CO2 from their smokestacks and will have to pay to get rid of it.
The conventional wisdom is that it will be sequestered underground.
But one audacious concept is to recycle the carbon by turning it [...]
Brew your own
Home-brew kits for hydrogen may bring it back into contention as a vehicle fuel
A FEW years ago, the race to replace the petrol-driven internal-combustion engine was dominated by hydrogen. Fuel cells, which mix hydrogen with oxygen to produce electricity and water, were the darlings of the technological world. The crowd, however, is fickle, and the [...]
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